Innovative Management Practice for Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures

Dear Colleagues,

The resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructures are both important concerns of stakeholders. The resilience of civil infrastructures aims to achieve robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity in response to the extreme events (e.g., earthquakes, floods, cyclones, etc.) and encompasses technical, organizational, social, and economic dimensions. The sustainability of civil infrastructures aims to achieve sustainable development in the social, environmental, and economic aspects. Resilience and sustainability are indeed interrelated.  

This Special Issue focuses on innovative management practices to enhance the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructures by soliciting theoretical, methodological, and empirical researches. The specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the integration of risk and resilience management approaches, the relationship between resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructures, disaster risk management of civil infrastructures, sustainable infrastructure management, decision-making related to sustainable and resilient civil infrastructures, etc. Innovative management practices will facilitate the adoption of relevant technology in the field of resilient and sustainable civil infrastructures. This Special Issue welcomes review articles and research articles that are associated with all aspects of management related to the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructures.

Dr. Xianbo Zhao
Dr. Yingbin Feng
Dr. Ming Shan
Guest Editors

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